CINCO de MARZO - A CHILLY CHILI STROLL - MARCH 5, 2011
Cinco de Marzo – A Chilly Chili Stroll
March 5, 2011
Decades Restaurant Parking Lot
North Conway, NH
Mary Alice and I had a great meeting last Friday with the Mt. Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce, the organization that is putting on this event. They are really excited about adding an ICS-sanctioned cookoff to their already popular people’s choice cookoff (this is their 8th year). The White Mountains are beautiful in winter.
This is the first cookoff in the Northeast this year. Why not come and get a qualification or two or three out of the way. Why wait? Remember, if we get 20 cooks, it’s an instant regional. Help us achieve this goal and send three cooks to Manchester for the WCCC.
The people’s choice part will distributed over four different venues (one being the ICS cookoff). Visitors will have a “passport” that the will get stamped at each venue. A minimum of one gallon of people’s choice is MANDATORY and must be ready to serve at noon if you want to compete in the ICS events. Leftover competition chili does not qualify as people’s choice.
Cooking will be done outdoors in a parking lot next to a restaurant. You will need to unload and park in a nearby lot. You will be able to bring your car back in afterwards to load out. If I recall correctly, there are nice views of the White Mountains from the parking lot.
This is still ski season so you can expect some traffic on Friday night.
There are two hotels offering discounts (20%) for the cooks:
Eastern Slope Inn Resort
2760 White Mountain Highway
Village of North Conway, NH
Phone: 603-356-6321
Email: stay@easternslopeinn.com
Rates start at $250 for two nights for up to four people.
Oxen Yoke Motel
170 Kearsarge Street
Village of North Conway, NH
Phone: 603-356-6321
Toll Free: 800-862-1600
Email: stay@EasternSlopeInn.com
Web: www.TheOxenYoke.com
Rates start at $100 for two nights for up to four people.
The chamber of commerce has set up a web site for the event at http://www.mtwashingtonvalley.org/pg_mwv/pg_mwv_65.cfm. Remember to sign up at http://www.chilicookoff.com/Event/Event_Display.asp?EventID=2841. By the way, if you are cooking in all three events, salsa is free.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
—Mike Kropp
